This is the first episode I made for my new Invader Zim series. It's about Zim's old flame returning to kill him but instead chooses to rebel against the Tallest and take the throne; all while their dealing with their relationship complications of the past. This is the first episode of many, so expect a lot more episodes. By the way, I'm trying to keep true to the original characters only adding my own characters into what I think the show should've continued as. More of my own characters will appear in future episodes as well as some old characters from the show, but Kay is actually based on me. Please enjoy and let me know what you think!

Episode 1: The Irken Princess

(The story starts on The Massive, where Zim is on the Tallests' monitor. They seem very angry and annoyed with him.)

"…Once again, REALLY sorry, my Tallest. Um…well…Invader Zim signing off!" Zim said then the screen went blank. Red snapped with rage, "ARRRGH! THIS IS THE LAST STRAW! WE NEED A WAY TO GET RID OF ZIM ONCE AND FOR ALL! We can't have him constantly screwing up our plans and ruining everything! I want him DEAD!" Purple, obviously shocked by Red's rage, got the solution that would calm him down. "We have her…" he said slyly. Red looked up and grinned evilly. "Yes…she'll be perfect! We haven't sent her on a mission for a while anyways." He said, "But what if she doesn't have will to kill him? What if she betrays us?" Purple smiled. "Then she'll be eliminated. We've always hated her anyway. We just made her our assassin to give her reason to not betray us. Besides, I doubt she will after what happened with Zim."

(Next we see a dark room with books and weapons everywhere. Scattered on the floor our nasty looking devices that could decapitate even the most fearsome creatures in the universe. A few daggers were holding a picture of a familiar tiny male Irken with red eyes and a cocky grin. On the bed, however, was another small Irken, a female dressed in a red uniform and wearing a long black cape. Her face was hidden inside a book.)

"Kay. We need to talk to you…" Red began. "What else is new?" the Irken said sarcastically. "…We need you to kill someone…" he continued ignoring her sarcasm. Then she interrupted again saying, "Doesn't sound too fun." Then Purple came up and said convincingly, "It's about Zim." That comment made the Irken shoot up, dropping her book. She had red eyes and a bright purple gem on her forehead that was glowing brightly, as well as her hands as she tightened them into fists. "I'm listening." She said darkly and the Tallest exchanged and evil smile with each other before continuing.

(Back on Earth, Zim and Dib were in Zim's yard shooting each other with laser guns, when they heard the skool bell rang.)

"OH NO!" they screamed at the same time and in a flash, they were both running toward the skool. "Class. We unfortunately have a new student…" Miss Bitters said. "…this is…" then the boys burst in and yelled, "Wait!" breathing heavily. Dib started to blame his tardy on Zim, when he saw the new student. The new girl wore a black hooded cape, had crimson hair that hung in her eyes (which were also red) and she had a purple gem on her forehead. "…As I was saying, class…This is Kay. Zim! Dib! Take your seats!" Miss Bitters yelled sourly. As they slowly went to their seats, Miss Bitters turned to Kay and said, "I guess you'll need a seat." Then Kay pointed to a spot between Zim and the wall and said, "How about that one?" Suddenly, a desk that was never there before appeared and Kay flashed to her seat in a super-fast swish. Both Zim and Dib gasped in shock while all the other kids didn't seem to notice. While Miss Bitters started teaching, Kay whispered to Zim, "Hello, Zim." "Heh?! You know me?!" he whispered back. "Oh c'mon! The name isn't a giveaway?" Zim scratched his head looking stupid. *sigh* "Well, you'll know who I am soon…" she said rolling her eyes. Hmm…The name DOES sound familiar…Zim thought as the lesson went on.

When it was time for recess, Kay followed Zim out and watched him from behind a tree, her hands glowing. "Where have I heard that name before?" Zim asked himself when, suddenly, a purple glow formed around him. "Hey, what's going on…AHHHH!" he yelled as he was suddenly lifted off the ground and thrown through the air across the playground. Dib heard the faint screaming growing closer. "What…ZIM?!" he shouted looking up to see Zim fly over his head and crash into the fence. Kids gathered around his withered body and laughed at him, but Dib could hear another laugh from behind a tree, a maniacal yet sorrowful laugh.

Back in class, Zim sat at his desk, shaking with fear. Kay smiled smugly, her hand glowing. Then Zim glowed once again and screamed as he was lifted out of his seat and flung to the floor. Then he was raised back up and let drop over and over. The class burst into laughter, except Dib (who would normally be laughing too) who was starring at Kay's glowing hand matching the movements of Zim's glowing body.

After skool let out Dib noticed Kay following Zim and began to follow her as well. "I need to find out why Kay is doing this to Zim…then I need to stop talking to myself." He said, talking to himself. As he stepped forward to follow, his foot hit a 'Poop' can and made a small noise, at which Kay jerked around, her hood hanging so low that you could only see the faint glow of her purple gem and her red eyes in the black. Then she suddenly faded into invisibility. "Where'd she go?" Dib said startled. *Clomp*Clomp*Clomp* The sound came from the wall above him and he looked up to see Kay running sideways on the wall top-speed towards Zim. Zim whipped around but not fast enough. He was quickly knocked unconscious, and as Kay grabbed his arm to jerk him up, her eyes softened at his limp body and bruised face. Then her eyes hardened again as she saw Dib approaching. She gave him and evil glance and then disappeared with Zim.

(On the other side of town, Zim's hand twitched and he slowly opened his red eyes (his disguise had been removed) and looked at where he was. He starred at the large Irken computer with the Irken royalty insignia on it that was lit by one large monitor showing the Massive on the screen and typing on the keyboard was a female Irken with a black cape.)

"Who are you?! What is this?!" he asked the Irken. "You haven't figured it out YET?! HONESTLY Zim! I thought you'd at least REMEMBER the girl whose heart you destroyed!" she said turning to reveal a purple gem and red eyes. Zim's eyes went wide as he recognized her, then he threw up his arms over his head, bracing for impact, shaking as he did. "What are you doing, Zim?" she asked, looking at him cowering. "…Waiting for you to kill me…?" he said still shaking. She turned back to the computer. *sigh* "I'm not going to kill you…yet. Now get up." Zim straightened up. "…Then why ARE you here?" he asked. She groaned and said, "I WAS sent here to kill you, but I'm using this distance to shoot down the Massive. I'm sick and tired of all of us being treated badly because we're shorter than the Tallest, and once their destroyed, I'll take the throne." "You're not mad at me anymore?" Zim asked, un-phased by her plan. "OF COURSE I AM!" she screamed. "Why? What did he do?" said a voice from behind them. They both turned in shock to see Dib sitting on a broken monitor, looking as if he'd been there a while. "Dib!" Zim yelled angrily, while Kay still looked shocked. Dib got up and pulled out his laser gun and aimed it at them. "Your time has finally come, Zim!" he said and fired. The laser beam was directed at Zim but it curved towards Kay. Seeing this, Zim ran and pushed Kay out of the way and the beam hit a large machine in the corner of the room. "THE SYSTEM CORE!" they both screamed in horror. Kay turned to Dib. "You've doomed us all! If that explodes we'll all be killed!" "I'll fix it!" Zim yelled activating his spider legs and running towards the machine. "You idiot! Let's just get out of -" she started to say when it exploded with Zim in close range. Tears streaming, Kay put up a force field to protect herself from the blast as Dib dived under it.

A purple glow suddenly broke the darkness. Dib looked up from the rubble and saw an enormous light escaping from Kay's hands which were laid on Zim's chest. He glowed on the inside for a few moments and then moved. As soon as she saw he was alive, she slapped him back into unconsciousness. Then she turned to Dib. "When he wakes back up, tell him to never do ANYTHING that stupid again…or ELSE!" Dib nodded helplessly and then Kay left to go outside. Then Dib's gaze shifted to the burned, waking Zim. Zim came to again and asked, "Where is she?" Dib shrugged and said that she left. Zim jumped to his feet (his energy fully restored) and ran outside with Dib close behind. AS Kay's ship took off, Zim yelled, "Wait! Kay!" Then as they watched Kay's ship get smaller and smaller, Dib mocked Zim saying, "Wow…I didn't know you could care about anyone except yourself, Zim." "WHAT?! You speak NONSENSE, human!" Zim said defensively as Dib said "Sure…" At that, Zim lunged in fury and tackled Dib to the ground.

(On the Massive, Red and Purple lock a target on Kay's ship.)

Purple said, "We half-expected Kay to betray us. She deserves this." as Red yelled, "OPEN FIRE!" Then the lasers hit Kay's ship sending it hurtling down in flames. Dib looked up through his broken glasses and saw the fireball. "Wait, Zim! What's that?" he said. Zim looked up, horrified at the sight of her ship crashing into the nearby woods. Dib, getting an idea, ran with Zim over to the crash site, hoping that whatever remained could be used for proof of alien existence.

They took Kay back to Dib's house and laid her on his bed after putting her ship in Zim's house. When she awoke and saw Zim over her, she became furious. She started shooting at them. "Kay, why are you doing this? We saved your life!" Zim yelled. "You expect me to believe YOU saved me after you ripped my heart out?!" she yelled back. "Really, Kay. Get a grip already!...oops." Zim covered his mouth, remembering her bad temper, but he had already said it. She hovered angrily over Zim, her hands glowing brighter than ever. "I've been waiting for this moment and NOW…" She started but then she saw Zim's terrified expression, and her hands dimmed. She looked down sadly and vanished.

"She left?" Zim said surprised. "I'm confused…What happened with you two?" Dib asked. Zim hesitated then sighed. "Well…It was about 70 years ago and Kay and I were…in a relationship and…" Dib broke out laughing. Zim gave him an evil glare and he stopped. "As I was saying…we were very happy together, going out and getting into trouble…"

(Kay is back at Zim's house and Zim's voice narrates while she searches for her ship)

"Then one day she didn't come and I could never reach her, ever, so I took up invader training and EXCELLED as you may have guessed."

Kay runs around Zim's base looking everywhere.

"Where did Zim put my ship?!"

"When her celebration day came, I wanted to see her, so I went to the palace and eventually found her. I told her that I was leaving her and Irk behind to continue training and she tried to KILL me!"

(We now see the boys back at Dib's house)

"So you dumped her?" Dib asked. "NO…well, not exactly…anyway, after that she became the Tallest's personal assassin…" Dib jumped up. "ASSASIN?!" "Yes…but now she wants to rise against the Tallest and take the throne." Zim said as Dib looked at him, baffled. "We need to find her soon though, before she does anything more to hurt herself." Zim said as a sneaky smile crossed Dib's face as he suggested they searched Zim's base, then they left.

(They were back at Zim's base, and as Zim and Dib walked in, Kay rose out of a panel in the floor.)

"Kay?" Zim said. "Zim! What are YOU doing here?" she yelled. "I live here. What are you doing? You know you can't fight the Tallest in your condition!" he answered then she retorted, "I can do whatever I want. Besides, why do YOU care? You never cared about me before!" Zim looked hurt and angry. "I DID care! But after that one night, I thought YOU didn't!" "I was training the Royal Smeets! I COULDN'T leave!"

Silence.

Zim broke the silence. "So you weren't avoiding me?" he asked. "No…and you weren't dumping me?" Zim shook his head and they both starred at each other and muttered, "Oh." Dib was holding up a video camera he'd been concealing the whole time, growing irritated that they hadn't mentioned the Tallest plan yet. Then Zim's constant staring made Kay awkward and she aked him hy he was still doing it. He blushed and responded by stuttering a bunch of nonsense. "Anyway…You can't stop me from fighting the Tallest." She announced. "I know…I'm going with you." He said and they both smiled. Dib jumped up excitedly at being able to fight Zim's leaders but he stopped when he saw Zim and Kay eyeing him suspiciously. "…I won't cause any trouble…" he lied. "There's ABSOU;UTLY NO WAY he's coming with us!" Zim yelled. Then Kay had to convince him that they needed all the help they could get. Zim fumed but agreed and Dib flashed a large, smug grin at him.

(On Kay's ship headed towards the Massive, Zim and Kay day dream about remembering the night they met.)

"Hey, Skoodge. Who's that girl over there?"Zim says seeing Kay at a party. "The Princess, Kay, but I wouldn't try to talk to her…" Skoodge cautions but Zim walks over to her anyway. *ahem* He slides next to Kay to get her attention. She turns around, annoyed, but when she sees Zim, her expression softened. "Yes?" she says. "I was wondering if you'd like to…dance?" he says. The Tallest look over as she agrees, then everyone turns to look.

They both sigh remembering.

(On the Massive, the Tallest are preparing to board a planet with the Irken Army to conquer it.)

Red says to a multitude of Irken soldiers in armor with laser zappers, "Alright. We all have to invade Nesslar on foot, thanks to Kay. But now the traitor Princess won't be able to interfere anymore because she's…" He was interrupted by a huge explosion on the other side of the Boarding Hall. The Kay, Zim, and Dib emerge from the smoke. "I'm what?" Kay said smugly. "Kay?!" the Tallest said in shock, but when they saw Zim and Dib, they burst out laughing. "You brought them to fight us? HA HA HA HA!" All three blushed with embarrassment and rage and then Zim shouted angrily, "NOW!" and the three of them charged, Dib, bringing out a water cannon and blasting the charging Irken soldiers. The Irken soldiers start to writhe in agony and that catches the Tallest's eye, but when Kay appears behind them and flies forward, they whip out laser swords and start swinging at her. Zim starts taking down 2 to 3 soldiers at once in a matter of seconds, as Dib sprays more with water. Suddenly Dib runs out of water and yells for help as he's tackled. Zim and Kay look towards to sound and Zim gets tackled and Red slashes Kay through the chest and falls. Zim starts yelling for Kay to get up and she fights back the pain and flies toward her ship, which has an emergency water pump on it in case this situation occurred. She releases the latch and water gushes out and floods the Massive, a giant wave crashing down on all the remaining soldiers, Zim, Dib, and the Tallest. The soldiers surrounding Zim and Dib float away and they look at each other and swim quickly up to the surface. When they reach it, they gasp for breath. Suddenly Zim remembered Kay and began calling her name. Then he saw her unconscious body floating in the water with blood seeping from her wound. Zim yells for Dib to get to the ship and get them out of there, as Dib was thinking to himself how fortunate he was to have brought his waterproof camera.

(On the ship, Dib is piloting and Zim holds Kay's limp body in his arms)

"Steer us to Irk, Dib. Kay needs to go to the Infirmary." Zim said. Then Dib smiled and stated that he didn't know where Irk was but in his mind he said that he sure wanted to find out. Zim suggested he use the map built into the ship.

Finally they got to Irk and the Healers jumped out and put Kay on a rolling hospital bed. Then Kay slowly opened her eyes and moaned. "Kay, you're alright! I'm so so so so so so so so…" he started apologizing and he kept going on while the whole time Kay kept telling him to shut up and that it was fine and she forgave him. Finally she got fed up and she pulled him to her lips and kissed him. Zim's eyes widened in shock but he didn't pull away, and Dib's jaw dropped and he nearly fell over backwards. When she released him he stared at her in surprise along with Dib. Then she said as they began to wheel her away, "There. That always DID shut you up, Zim. Goodbye!" After she left, they both kept staring after her, Zim smiling with a dazed expression and Dib still in partial shock, and they both mumbled, "Wow…"

Back on Earth, Dib took out the camera he'd been hiding and waved it in front of Zim's face. "Well, this should be enough to convince everyone you're an alien, now, and I bet they'll just love that kissing part! Ha Ha Ha!" he said laughing. "YOU RECORDED EVERYTHING?!" Zim yelled. Dib was about to reply when suddenly, a large box labeled 'Earth' crashed onto Zim's walkway. Zim opened it and a letter popped out and flew into the air. He caught it and read it out loud.

Zim,

I'm afraid I'll be staying at the Infirmary for awhile and I won't be able to attend to my normal duty, training the Royal Smeets. Could you please take over their training for me while I recover? I'm sure you have enough experience. Thanks and I'll see you when they release me.

3Kay

They each looked, horrified, into the box after reading the letter and saw 2 small smeets. 1 had pink eyes, a pink uniform, and a pink gemstone on her forehead like Kay, but she had a strange resemblance to Zim. The other was a male smeet and had purple eyes, a purple uniform, and had a small mark under his left eye. He looked strangely familiar too, but neither Zim nor Dib could think of it. Then the pink one looked at them, smiled, and said, "Hi! I'm Miz and this is Yak!" Then Zim and Dib both fell backwards saying, (Dib) "There's MORE of them?!"

(Zim) "I have to train THEM?!"

Miz looked at them curiously for a moment then her attention turned to the camera that fell from Dib's hand. As she tinkered with it and took it apart, Yak had a flash back of the strange visitor the night before he left Irk.

"Yak." Said a voice from the shadows. "Who are you? How do you know my name?"He replied. Then a cloaked figure stepped forward, only her purple eyes could be seen, but her British voice was all too clear. "I made you from my DNA, so technically I am your 'Mother'. Listen, Yak. Kay is the next in line to inherit the Irken Empire now that the Tallest are gone, and that spawn of Zim's DNA is before you as well, making Zim another legitimate heir. Kay did this all on purpose so that she and Zim could rule together with their 'daughter' made as a Royal Smeet. It's not fair is it? That's why I need you to kill Kay, Zim, and their smeet, Miz, so you, my 'son' inherit the throne. You'll have all the assets of the Empire in your hand to do with what you will. Al you need to do is get them out of the way. Do this for me, as my 'son'." She said. Yak agreed, but inside he told himself that he could never betray Kay, the one who had taken care of him all this time, and Miz, whom he felt a strong attraction to, but if this Irken really was his 'mother', he had to obey, didn't he?

Yak snapped out of it as Miz asked him to help carry the boys inside. Could he really kill the ones that showed kindness to him, and the one in the middle, this Zim? But also, could he really deny his true 'mother's' will?

End of episode 1